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About the Award

The Norma K Hemming Award is given annually by the Australian Science Fiction
Foundation to mark excellence in the exploration of themes of race, gender,
sexuality, class and disability in speculative fiction first published either
in Australia or by an Australian citizen.

The inaugural award was presented at Aussiecon 4, the 68th World Science
Fiction Convention held in Melbourne in 2010.

The 2016 winner will be presented with the award trophy at Contact2016, the
55th Australian National Science Fiction Convention in Brisbane on 27th March
2016.

About the Judges

About the Australian Science Fiction Foundation

The Australian Science Fiction Foundation was established in 1976 to carry
on the work of Aussiecon, the first Australian World Science Fiction Convention
held in Melbourne in 1975. It sponsors and encourages the creation and appreciation
of science fiction in Australia.

About Norma K Hemming

Norma Kathleen Hemming (1928-1960) was a pioneer Australian feminist science
fiction writer whose stories and stage plays were informed by her experiences
as one of the few women active in science fiction in the 1960s.